GERMAN AMERICANS

and it is characteristic that when America went to war
with Germany, the Anheuser-Busch plant, past which
the Mississippi rolls, built submarines equipped with
Diesel engines—for the American Navy.

The next most outstanding German-American city
within a city which I visited in the St Louis area was
Concordia Seminary, German Lutheran, Missouri
Synod, rich, cloistered buildings of stone, but with
steel radio towers among the tallest in the Middle West
—station KFUO, high-powered.: On the entrance is
written " Gospel Voice " in old-fashioned Gothic letters,
but they broadcast the voice with modern high voltage,
and when I entered their sound-room, just as they were
preparing for a sacred broadcast, a blond soprano,
thumbing Johann Sebastian Bach, said, 4k In a minute
I'm going to show up the guy who sang this yesterday,"

I am inclined to think that Lutheran churches and

1 "While fundamentalist, Concordia Seminary has a faculty of
brilliant men drawn from the great lay universities of the world,
and is the intellectual centre of German Lutheranism in America.
It was founded in 1839 by Lutherans from Saxony, and the first
school was a log-cabin. To-day, with a three-million-dollar plant
and an enrolment of 561 theological students, it is the largest
denominational divinity school in the United States. The Lutheran
Church in America is predominantly German, but not entirely
so. The largest affiliated body is the Synodical Conference, of
which Dr L. F. Fuerbringer is* President.' This is the group with
which the Missouri Synod is affiliated. Another large group is
the United Lutheran Church, with headquarters in New York.
The Augustana Synod is largely Scandinavian. While German
Americans are mostly Lutheran, the Roman Catholic group is
also strong. While German and Austrian Catholics are mostly
Roman Catholic, the Greek Orthodox Church is strong among
the Hungarians. All these Church groups, both Protestant and
Catholic, are in clear-cut opposition to Communism, Fascism, and
Nazism, While adhering to separation of Church and State, they
none the less are pillars of democracy, as opposed to all new isms.